Delivering BREEAM In-Use consultancy for assets
Our sustainability team carry out a range of services for our clients one of which is delivering BREEAM In-Use assessments to drive sustainability in existing buildings. BREEAM In-Use is a certification system that has been designed to measure and improve the environmental performance of existing buildings. Buildings and asset managers are keen to have data that gives an independent score and report that can help to inform decisions on improving buildings.
What is BREEAM In-Use?
The Building Research Establishment Assessment Method more commonly known as BREEAM is a methodology that is widely used to measure building performance and a framework that can be used across industrial, retail, commercial and residential buildings to tie in with UK building regulations. BREEAM In-Use has different categories and parts that assess performance and provide benchmarks and clients have a degree of flexibility in choosing the aspects they want measured depending on their goals and what would be most valuable to their business or project.
How the BREEAM In-Use assessment helps your organisation
With global goals to achieve net zero, the ability to demonstrate this level of sustainability certification to investors, buyers and tenants cannot be understated. The assessment is a significant step that can boost your ESG credentials through a system that is respected and globally recognised.
Here’s how else it can help:
- Enables asset managers to make decisions around sustainability energy measure
- Drives down energy usage and operational costs.
- Improves the profitability of a building
- Ensures compliance with reporting requirements CRREM, GRESB and ESG
Initial registration process and report
Clients must register online to initiate this process through a simple analysis questionnaire. Whether is a portfolio of properties, more than one building can be registered so that the assessment is applied to a group. One of our qualified BREEAM assessors will then review the submission and generate a pre-assessment report before the full on-site inspection. The parts to the assessment and fees will relate to the number of buildings being assessed. There may also be ongoing annual reviews where improvements are made because of the initial report then where appropriate, a building rating can be updated.
Categories
The BREEAM In-Use assessment covers numerous categories as follows:
- Management
- Health and Wellbeing
- Energy
- Transport
- Water
- Resources
- Resilience
- Land Use & Ecology
- Pollution
There are two parts to the assessment, part 1 examines asset performance and part 2 looks at management performance. The only exceptions are in the Management category where there is no asset to assess and transport where only part 1 is carried out. Clients can make decisions around the areas they feel need the most focus on or where they may gain the most wins.
Delivering BREEAM In-Use consultancy for buildings and assets
The Cudd Bentley sustainability team will ensure our BREEAM assessors are on hand with advice both in the pre-assessment stage and following the on-site audit and final certification. As with all our services, we offer consultancy that gives expert advice and a set of recommendations or road maps that can inform strategy for upgrades and appropriate manageable phases to the work. We aim to ensure that the entire process is set out and empowers our clients to make real and lasting strides towards the improvement of their building.
